Tag Archives: Science

Now we know why Eminem called of his European tour a couple of days ago: today publicist Dennis Dennehy said the rapper formerly known as Marshall Mathers, 32, was “in the hospital under doctors’ care” recovering from addiction to sleeping medication. He had been due to begin the 10-date European …

If you are so inclined, this mystery could be “evidence” against evolution: if scientists can’t classify a 525 million-year-old fossil (annelid? arthropod? mollusc? something else?) then why is there any reason to think it “evolved” at all, rather than having been “created” sui generis and sent on its merry way, …

There are many religions on this planet and many of their believers strongly trust that their particular creed is the one and only true faith. As far as I understand it, they all (or at least the vast majority) seem to believe that there is only one God. Setting aside …

Two-thousand years ago grieving Egyptian parents put their young child to rest in the customary manner: they removed all of the youth’s organs except for the heart, packed the remains in salt to cure them, and wrapped them in linen coated with perfumed resin. They were certain that their careful …

In the nearly four decades since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, human space travel has gone nowhere.

The world has been full of talented people. There is talent in everyone, but the simple fact is that most people never realize their talents, and those talents go to waste. These are people who knew what their talents were, but for one reason or another, their talents were wasted …

I can pretty well guarantee you'll find some new view of one of your favourite puzzles.

Isn’t there enough pain...without us denying succour to those most in need?

“A boon for all mankind” have become five of the most dangerous words..."

...now when someone says he or she is a reformer, you can’t be sure what is meant.